A Critical Mental Health Primer: Towards Informed Choice in Education, Social Services, and Healthcare...

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Jan N. DeFehr

A Critical Mental Health Primer

Towards Informed Choice in Education, Social Services, and Healthcare

Jan N. DeFehr

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Canadian Scholars
30 April 2025

Care of the mentally ill; Social work; Education; Mental health services

In A Critical Mental Health Primer, Dr. Jan DeFehr, university professor with over twenty years of clinical social work practitioner experience, provides an overview of critical mental health scholarship, arguing that providing access to critical mental health knowledge is a prerequisite for ethical practice.

Through a peer-reviewed critique of psychiatry and its broad field of mental health, topics explored include scientific critique of evidence; the potential long-term harm caused by mental disorder diagnoses; key concerns related to lack of transparency and procedural justice; anti-colonial critiques of the mental health system; critiques concerning psychiatric drugs and the DSM; ethical standards of care; and practical guidance for supporting one another outside of the dominant mental health model.

A Critical Mental Health Primer is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level mental health courses across social work, education, health sciences studies, and nursing programs, in both universities and colleges.

By: Jan N. DeFehr
Imprint: Canadian Scholars
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 171mm,
ISBN: 9781773384573
ISBN 10: 1773384570
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jan DeFehr, MSW, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg.